Goosebumps Most Wanted #1: Planet of the Lawn Gnomes by R.L. Stine

Author:R.L. Stine
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2012-05-11T16:00:00+00:00

“Elliot? Elliot?” I repeated his name. “What happened? Are you okay? Can you hear me?”

He opened his eyes. A smile spread over his face. “Just joking,” he said.

He sat up. “Ha-ha. You looked totally freaked.”

I swallowed. My mouth was dry as cotton. “No way,” I lied. “I knew you were faking. I knew it was a dumb joke.”

Elliot laughed some more. He climbed slowly to his feet. He looked kind of dizzy to me. His eyes were darting from side to side.

Was it really a joke? Or did the flash of light knock him out somehow?

Weird.

“Cool invention,” Elliot said. He picked up the light-stick and studied it. He raised it a few feet from his face and blew gently on it.

“No. It only works once,” I told him. “It burns off the chemicals, so it won’t light anymore.”

He set it down on the table. “It’s still totally cool. You make a lot of inventions like this?”

“Well, yeah,” I said. “Mostly I just mix chemicals together to see what will happen.”

He pushed back his hair and turned to the window. A beam of yellow sunlight poured onto the bedroom floor. “Jay, want to go outside?”

“Yeah,” I said.

I led the way downstairs. “Just going out for a walk,” I called to my parents. We stepped out the front door.

I felt a shiver of fear roll down my back. I searched the front yard for lawn gnomes. But I didn’t see any.

Across the street, McClatchy stood on a tall ladder with hedge clippers in his hands. He was busy trimming the tall hedge and didn’t see us as we walked past on the street.

I felt angry all over again. I pictured him kicking Mr. Phineas. I felt bad that I didn’t get my revenge last night.

Elliot and I turned the corner and kept walking. The sunlight felt good on my face. The warm air smelled fresh. I started to calm down.

Elliot kicked a stone to the curb. “I kind of heard what you were talking about with your dad,” he said.

I kept my eyes straight ahead. “Really?”

“Yeah. He sounded pretty steamed.”

“He can get a little stressed sometimes,” I said. “He’s been on my case a lot lately.”

Elliot stopped walking. We stood in the shade of a fat old tree. The tree limbs trembled above us in the wind, making the sunlight shimmer.

“Why has he been on your case?” Elliot asked. “Do you want to tell me about it?”

I swallowed. “Well …”

I didn’t want to talk about it. I never talked about it with anyone.

Elliot’s eyes locked on mine. He was waiting for my answer.

And suddenly, the words just blurted out of me: “I burned down our house.”

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